“Integrity, Honesty, and Literary Capacity”
GOVERN OR-GENERAL ’ S TRIBU TB TO DOMINION’S PRESS AUCKLAND, ’June 23. V Complimentary reference to the high standard maintained by the Press .of New Zealand was. made : by the Gov-ernor-General at the opening of the Overseas League’s new clubrooms, His Excellency said he learned from the late Lord Northcliffe that the Press was a beneficient organ of public opinion! “It gives me the opportunity of. saying,” he added, ‘.‘that you are very fortunate in this Dominion in having almost without exception a Press of outstanding integrity, honesty and literary capacity with which I doubt whether the Press of any part of the world can bear comparison. “Almost every distinguished visitor who comes to "these shores comments upon the very high standard that the Press of this country maintains. May [ venture to hope that you will do all in your power, to encourage the maintenance of that standard, bearing in mind the immense power that the Press wields in moulding public opinion?”
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1933, Page 2
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